Re: How to install Fedora-12?
by Jackson Byers
>> If you 'cp' or 'mv' the vmlinuz and initrd.img to
>> your internal disks, then grub can find them.
> But will it then be able to see the USB stick,
> in order to copy the Fedora-12 files to the hard disk?
> Otherwise the exercise seems pointless,
> as one might as well have copied the ISO file to the hard disk.
> Timothy Murphy
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All I can say is what I have successfully done, more than once.
--I can _install_ to my USB external disk.
---I installed f11 via first downloading iso to my internal disks.
and then followed hard-disk install procedure.
---I also installed f10 to my USB external disk, here via DVD.
In both cases the anaconda installer sees the USB as sda
and reorders my internal disks to sdb, sdc
--In neither case, could I _boot_ the USB installs, unless I
put the vmlinuz,initrd onto my internal disk
and referenced properly that internal disk location
with the proper "root (hd1,0)" in my grub.conf.
This root (hd1,0) line in grub.conf does not use the reordered positions for
disks as seen by anaconda. Instead it uses the internal disks
as if the USB is not there at all; because that is what my BIOS sees.
This is not pointless at all: my goal was to use external USB
for the installs because I had no easily used room on my internal disks.
Possibly I have misinterpreted what you are trying to do;
if so, sorry for the noise
Jack
14 years, 4 months
Upgrade from F11 to F12 - problem with LVM and raid
by jaivuk
Hi guys,
I tried to upgrade F11 with soft raid F12. So far I used yum to upgrade
Fedora 1 up to F11. My yum update went wrong and my server wes forcefully
rebooted in the middle so none kernel from F11 works anymore.
After I booted F12 DVD - if I select "Install or Upgrade" and "Replace
existing Linux System" the probem is that my original raid raids are not
mounted. I can see:
<6>md6: radi1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
<6>md0: detected capacity change from 0 to xxxx
<3>"Buffer I/O error on device md0, logical block 0"
...
<3>"Buffer I/O error on device md0, logical block 9"
<6>md0: detected capacity change from xxxx to 0
...
<6>md: md0 is stopped
This whole raid process repeats iteslf several times and it takes about
10-15 minutes.
However with "Replace existing Linux System" option, raid arrays are not
mounted successfuly and I cannot install F12 over F11.
But when I select rescue option from F12 DVD, the same errors are displayed
but my all old arrays are eventually mounted, so I can see all the files.
Also once arrays are mounted they appear working and healthy.
Do you please have any hint how can I refresh or repair my md arrayrs so it
does not take ages before these are mounted and at the first place they are
mounted every time?
Is there any safe raid command I can do in rescue mode so this is achieved
and I won't loss my data?
Do you think that my raid arrays created in times of Fefdora 1 can cause
this problem?
This situation is very painful as I killed my day today trying to fix it
without luck :(
Thank you very much gyus,
Jaiv
PS: During my initial tries I reinstalled swap (as it was encrypted on the
old system and Anaconda always asked for pw which I do not have) and I did
it with the command:
mkswap -f -L swap /dev/VolGrolup00/LogVol00
Do you think I could have damaged my raid arrays by using "-f" option?
14 years, 4 months
Across Lite for F12 32-bit, an i686 vs i386 issue?
by Patrick O'Callaghan
My name is Patrick and I'm a crossword puzzle addict.
The NYT publishes its puzzles in Across Lite format, and there's a
proprietary app (acrossl) which runs on Linux. Unfortunately it's
getting really old and is binary-only. It worked under F11 but now the
app gets a segfault on my netbook (though oddly it works fine on my
64-bit desktop, also on F12).
Since I'm on the road for 2 months I'm starting to get withdrawal
symptoms :-) F12 32-bit code is now compiled for the i686 and both the
app and the old compat libraries are i386 (not all of them have been
updated for F12). Could this be the problem?
I'm also willing to try other Across Lite apps, but I've never come
across a free one that was half-way decent.
poc
14 years, 4 months
Lotus Notes 8.5 on F12?
by Peter Hinse
Hi all,
anyone succeeded in running Lotus Notes 8.5 (or 8.5.1) on Fedora 12? The
RPM installs fine, however the preview pane or some preference dialogs
cannot be drawn. Copying some libgtk and libgdk libs to
/opt/ibm/lotus/notes fixes some problems, the GTK decorations are
missing then.
Regards,
Peter
14 years, 4 months
Assistance finding out what process is writing to the disk drive
by jnissley＠nissley.org
I have a Fedora 11 server running 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64. I recently
noticed that my hard drive light is on constantly and was wondering how
I can determine what is accessing the hard disk so much. After boot the
hard disk is acting normally for a few minutes to a few hours and then
the hard drive light is lit up constantly.
I have tried ps -ef to see if there was anything running that I do not
know about and there is not. Is there any way for me to determine which
process is consistently using the hard disk?
Thanks
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14 years, 4 months
Preupgrade: anaconda can't find NIC?
by Ian Pilcher
System is a 64-bit Fedora 11 guest on RHEL 5.4 KVM. Trying to upgrade
to Fedora 12 via preupgrade. Everything downloads fine, but I get
nothing but a black screen after the guest reboots and anaconda starts.
Adding "text" to the kernel line in grub.conf let's me see an anaconda
backtrace. The root error seems to be this:
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchDevice: No
device with id /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
The guest does have a single VirtIO virtual NIC, which works just fine
in Fedora 11.
Any ideas? Thanks!
14 years, 4 months
F12: Webcam microphone.
by d p
I have a Logitech E3500 which has worked perfectly until
recently (possibly until recent update including several
pulseaudio files. Now the microphone is not found. I don't know
where to start trying to fix this. Any help appreciated !
DP
Adelaide Australia
14 years, 4 months
Problem Area TouchScreen Dual Head
by Carlos Parrá
Dears,
I have two monitors one LG (no touchscreen) and
HP L5006tm (touchscreen) TouchScreen Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04e7:0020 Elo
TouchSystems Touchscreen Interface (2700),
My problem is that when the configuration of a dual-head monitors,
touchscreen making the entire area of both screens, and I just need to take
the area of the touchscreen. Someone knows how to tell the touchscreen that
using only your area.
Using Fedora Core 12.
Thanks
Carlos.
14 years, 4 months
suggested DVD editing toolset?
by Kevin Kempter
Hi All;
I'm sad to find that all of the companies that set out to provide modified
copies of DVD movies with the token hollywood crap removed and the language
cleaned up have all been sued into oblivion by hollywood.
So, I'd like to to modify my own DVD's and watch the cleaned up copies.
However I'm totally oblivious to even the slightest details about this area of
computing (I'm a database guy). So, Im looking for suggestions per user
friendly oss tools to pull this off and possibly info/web sites that will
explain more about how to do this.
Thanks in advance
14 years, 4 months
